Creating puzzle images with Gimp
This article describes a procedure on how to create images that are shaped like puzzle pieces, like I did on some of my pages. Not that I’m so presumptuous as to think anyone would want to copy my idea.So let’s say I wrote this article mostly for myself, in case years from now I’ll be scratching my head “how the hell did I do this”? Which happens to me a lot!
However, in a year since this article was written, Gimp has changed significantly, and not all for the better. I’m saddened that they got rid of the Dynamic Text filter. I guess its functionality is supposed to be incorporated into Text tool, but, alas, the Text tool isn’t nearly quite as good. It often locks up in mysterious ways and doesn’t seem to have as much functionality as Dynamic Text filter. Still, I think the things described in this article should be possible to do with the Text tool. It’s just that I’m not going to rewrite this article (not in the near future, anyway), to start refering to the Text tool instead of Dynamic Text filter.
And keep in mind that everything in this article refers to the older version of Gimp (I’m too lazy to investigate which version it was. I don’t have it on any of my computers anymore.) Hence, some menus and keyboard shortcuts may be inaccurate.
